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Major Wrestling Promotions in Japan Come Together for Charity Event
On 08/09 the 3 largest promotions in Japan: All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), and Pro Wrestling NOAH are coming together to put on a huge special event for victims of the earthquake/tsunami in Japan earlier this year. Stars of each promotion will come together to face off in rare inter-promotional matches in Tokyo, Japan. “All Together” will be headlined by two huge matchups featuring some of the biggest stars in all of Japan. First, the legendary duo of All Japan’s Keiji Muto (better known as Great Muta in America) and NOAH’s Kenta Kobashi will face off against New Japan’s Toru Yano and Takashi Iizuka! Then, the tandem of New Japan’s Hiroshi Tanahashi, NOAH’s Go Shiozaki, and All Japan’s Suwama will face New Japan’s Shinsuke Nakamura, NOAH’s Takashi Sugiura, & All Japan’s KENSO in a huge 6-Man Tag! Along with the three major companies, DDT & Kensuke Office will also send talent for the show. The full card for the event is below:
NJPW/AJPW/NOAH “All Together”
08/27/11
Tokyo, Japan
1) Kota Ibushi, Taiji Ishimori, Hiroshi Yamato, & Tetsuya Bushi vs. Tiger Mask IV, Kaz Hayashi, Shuji Kondo, & Ricky Marvin
2) Tetsuya Naito, Shuhei Taniguchi, & Seiya Sanada vs. Mohammed Yone, Yujiro Takahashi, & Manabu Soya
3) Togi Makabe & Akitoshi Saito vs. Hirooki Goto & Taiyo Kea
4) Prince Devitt, Ryusuke Taguchi, Kotaro Suzuki, Katsuhiko Nakajima, & KAI vs. Koji Kanemoto, KENTA, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Minoru, & Genba Hirayanagi
5) Masakatsu Funaki, Takuma Sano, & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Minoru Suzuki, Atsushi Aoki, & Taichi
6) Destroyer Cup Battle Royal: Hideo Saito vs. Tomohiro Ishii vs. Gedo vs. Takaaki Watanabe vs. Hiromu Takahashi vs. KUSHIDA vs. Wataru Inoue vs. Tomoaki Honma vs. Super Strong Man vs. Jin Nishikawa vs. Satoshi Kajiwara vs. Kento Miyahara vs. Che-Gyong Lee vs. Takumi Soya vs. Soshun vs. Yasufumi Nakanoue vs. Masanobu Fuchi vs. Rene Dupree vs. Joe Doering vs. Masao Inoue vs. Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Akira Taue vs. MAZADA vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
7) Yuji Nagata, Satoshi Kojima, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, & Osamu Nishimura vs. Takeshi Morishima, Akebono, Yutaka Yoshie, & Ryota Hama
8) Kensuke Sasaki & Jun Akiyama vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Takao Omori
9) Kenta Kobashi & Keiji Muto vs. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka
10) Hiroshi Tanahashi, Go shiozaki, & Suwama vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, takashi Sugiura, & KENSO